Sure there are ways.
It doesn't really do anything automatic like fit-text-to-block, but if
you're passing your text through a program to generate input like I do
you can determine how much space that text is going to need.  You can
either alter the text itself or the size of the text to fit in any given
area.
It's relatively simple for a fixed width font.  With a variable width
font you just have to allow for the largest character or go through the
text character by character.  If you dig deep enough with embedded code
it does tell you the size of each character in a font set.


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Sargent [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 1:43 PM
To: Rob Sargent
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: align columns last line

Is there really no fop way to get consistently placed top and bottom
lines, such as one expects in a multi-column page of a magazine?

I can see that this would mean reverse-leading(?) after the contents of
the page had been established, but it seems a fundamental formatting
requirement.

Ever hopeful,
rjs

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